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January 26, 2013

Maifield wins exciting final RROC 2WD encounter

The sixth & final round of 2WD at the Reedy Race of Champions produced the most exciting encounter yet with a race that saw Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield snatch the win from HB’s Ty Tessman on the last lap, the Canadian also getting passed the No.10 starting TLR of Dustin Evans in the final dash to the finish. In the other two races Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz and TLR’s Mike Truhe claimed their first wins of the event which after 18 races using 2WD buggies will now switch over to 4WD.

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January 26, 2013

Serpent Spyder SRX-2 teaser

Serpent have released first renderings of their upcoming Spyder SRX-2 2WD electric off-road buggy. Detailed information on the buggy are not available at the moment but looking at the drawings several class typical elements such as big bore shock absorbers, angled front wishbones and a cab forward design body shell are visible. Along with the SRX-2 Serpent will introduce more 1/10th off-road vehicles such as a 4WD buggy, 2WD short course and stadium truck as well as a 4WD SC truck. Further details will be available when the car is revealed during next week’s Nuremberg Toy Fair.

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January 26, 2013

Cavalieri completes perfect day at Reedy Race

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Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri completed the perfect result on the first day of racing at the Reedy Offroad Race of Champions, the World Champion winning all four of his 2WD encounters at West Coast RC Raceway in La Mirada, California. The only driver to claim multiple wins today, the fourth round of racing saw Cavalieri’s fellow US offroad stars Ryan Maifield and Jared Tebo take their first wins at the 19th running of the event which will be decided over 12 rounds of heads up racing.

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January 25, 2013

Cavalieri doubles up in Round 2

Ryan Cavalieri has made it 2 wins from 2 races at the Reedy Race of Champions in California, the Associated driver again converting his second pole position start into a victory to put himself in an early lead of the standings. In the other two races that made up the second round of 2WD Buggy at the famous event HB’s Atsushi Hara and Tamiya’s Lee Martin secured the wins. The drive of the second round came in Race 2 from Ryan Maifield who starting 10th on the grid came through to finish second just a second behind Martin. Afterwards the Team Associated ace said it was a ‘good result’ but he wished he had been able to get through the pack a little faster, his fastest lap almost 6/10th faster than that of European Champion Martin.

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January 25, 2013

Serpent Cobra 14° & 16° C-hubs

New from Serpent come CNC-machined aluminium castor blocks for the Cobra line of buggies, trucks and GT vehicles. The parts come in sets of left and right C-hubs including matching hardware and are black anodized and laser engraved. Generally more caster give less steering into a corner but more coming out of a turn. The new parts help to find the best setup for your given track condition or driving style.

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January 25, 2013

VRC Pro adds Silver Dollar Raceway

The Silver Dollar Raceway is one of the most anticipated VRC track releases to date. The virtual copy of the US-based track was created in close collaboration with A Main Hobbies from Chico, California. The 315m long off-road track with its 2012 lay-out is used for both short course and nitro buggy racing, and will be hosting, with a different layout, the 2013 IFMAR Worlds for 1:10 2WD and 4WD electric buggies. The 2013 Worlds layout will be made available later this year when the track will be re-modeled for the IFMAR Worlds. Being one of the largest hobby retailers in the country, A Main Hobbies also discovered the benefits of being closely involved with VRC Pro, not only as a reseller, but also to have their Silver Dollar Raceway track in the VRC Pro collection.

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January 25, 2013

Cavalieri biggest winner of opening Reedy Race encounter

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Ryan Cavalieri, Brent Thielke and Travis Amezcua have opened their Reedy Offroad Race of Champions with victories of their respective races with former champion Cavalieri taking the biggest win in a race that featured four electric offroad World Champions. The opening race of the 19th running of the famous event, the current World Champion cruised to a 7-second win over Jared Tebo with Ty Tessmann coming from 8th on the grid to complete the Top 3.

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January 25, 2013

Jiří Mára wins at Open Challenge Rd4

The fourth round of the Czech Open Challenge off-road race series took place at the purpose-build indoor track in Brandys. More than 50 drivers attended with the 4WD class was being dominated by Xray driver Jiří Mára in front of Marcel Dostal and Kamil Řečinský. With only minor changes to the car Jiří went into the finals and easily won a lap ahead of Marcel Dostal who ended up second with Lukáš Zeman in third.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]